Improvement in horse-rakes



'useful Improvement therefrom.

c UNITED STATES PATENT f GEEICE.

DANIEL rEEsT, or MAingiaaoEoUeH,` NEW JERSEY.

.IMPROVEMENT IN Ho'RsEA-RAKES.

'specification forming pmt of Letteraria-tent' No. 41,990, cated May so, 1865.

To all whom, it may concern: d

Be it known that I, DANIEL PREsT, 'of Marl borough, in the county of 'Monmouth and VState of New Jersey, have invented a new and in Horse-Rakes; and -Ij dohereby declare the following to be afull and exact description of the saine, reference, being had tothe Vaccompanying drawings,

making -part of this specification, in whichf- Figure l is a plan of a horse-rake embody ing my invention.' Fig. 2 is an end elevati'ol'ivv of the same 'Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This -;invention .relates to a rakeof novel and simple construction, and pertains to that class in which the head rests upon the ground and the teeth project horizontally forward The purpose of the invention is to facilitate the discharge of the hay as it is taken up byl the teeth in -succ 3ssivea quantities, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to whichv my inventionappertains to fully understand anduse the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the rake-head, and A the teeth, which project forward and move in contact with the ground, so -as to gather the hayas the machine movesforward, said teeth being allowed free vertical movement bythe runners or supports a, whichare located at the respective ends of the rake-head A, and are curved to.v adapt themselves to any changes in the position of the machine which may be caused by inequalities of the ground.

The thills B are attached to the rake-head by means of oir-straps' (3,- in which the said- A rake-head may turn freely. 1

D is a transverse bar having a series of .holes or mortises, which are occupied' by the .teeth levers are ber, 1864.

l A in the manner illustrated in` Fig. '1.' .Atv .tached to and projecting upwardly from? the' bar 1 are the clearersD, `-whereby the hay is arc of a circle? :This

the same time raises said forward ends to permit the hayto. be throw-neil' or dislodged fromA the teeth'A-`by the bar D and clearersD.

While the teeth are heiligA thus elevated theA head A rotates within the bearingsv C inde.- pendently of the thills.

' In Fig, 2 a perspicuous illustration of ltheoperation is given by the red lilies. On each end of thebar D is a bar, H, which bars, work ing vthroughloops a a on the rakeheadserve' as guides for the bar D in addition to therake teeth A-.

This machine is of very. simple construction, may be operated with the greatest facil-y ity, -and built at small cost.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination of the levers E E'with the 'bar D, clearers D', .and teeth A', the vwhole being arranged to operate substantially as here'- in'described.

The above specification of my improvement in horse-rakes signed Athis 1st day of Decem- 'DANIEL BREST; Witnesses: A. C. SMITH,- O.D. SMITH. 

